Posts by slateboy

Looking nice

Quote from galvan

I'm a UI designer and I've come up with a proposal to improve the interface; feel free to give your opinions.

Theres a couple of considerations with a small-display depending if you are stood playing live or sitting at home/studio.

In the studio you can have more info and more time to observe the screen whereas playing live you need basic info at a glance from a distance. Some people like big text, patch-names, others like bank+slot details, others prefer to see the state of FX.

Great that the midicaptain has been given so much more potential from the time and dedication from people like tunetown

Quote from Alex U

Hello all!

I wonder if anyone had similar problem:

I have deleted all files from midi captain folder, copied all files from content folder from pyswitch project. After device reboot I get following issue (see screenshot)

If I install back original fw, controller works fine.

I have tried several times installing pyswitch, also a have formatted midi cpt disk and tried once again. Always the same result.

tunetown

Any ideas how to solve?

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this is usually the state of the midicaptain when no Kemper is connected (or duff USB cable?

Again- thread applies to ALL units (get this sorted please, web-admins!!)

Follow up to this thread-volume or level control for double-tracker

Another search for that wider-sound-scape-
As it stands, the double-tracker effect has limited use as it is not completely mono-compatible. If there was some way to retain the apparent volume level when L+R were summed it would be useful.

Some widening effects have a the original sound centre and the L+R cancel out when summed mono. This would be better so that stereo output devices deliver the big/wide sound but summed-to-mono retains the original sound where there is no benefit to having a wide sound anyhow.

Example-

• original source goes unaffected to L+R outs
• L effect = delayed (effected/pitch/comb-filtered/whatever)
• R = inverted L effect
• Thus stereo sounds big and wide, L or R on their own have some additional effect but systems that sum L+R deliver a clean unaffected sound.

Quote from Megagreg

https://www.etsy.com/listing/430431…-midi-converter

Thank you, anyone have a quick link to an appropriate cable or adapter?

that appears to be a mini jack (1/8 inch) adapter as opposed to a standard (1/4 inch) jack.

I take it your jack cable on your expression pedal is 1/4 inch. The midicaptain has a 1/4 inch TRS jack socket.

Quote from Megagreg

I’m still struggling with my expression pedals (Volume and Wah)

don't forget- where as the majority of pedals use TRS as T=variable, S=hot H=ground, the midicaptain has the T+S the other way round.

This sounds exactly like the symptoms you are experiencing

You need to have an adapter cable or change something on your expression pedal. (or a bit of re-soldering on the connecting TRS cable)

Quote from seve

tunetown Hi! I always use a USB connection with the PySwitch MC10 and Kemper Head, and everything is fine. Today I tried connecting the Kemper Head to MIDI In and MIDI Out with two MIDI cables, but it doesn't work: the MC10 starts up but doesn't send or receive any signals. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks.

If i recall correctly, you have to enable communication over the din connectors in the settings/code as it is disabled by default.

Quote from IZARITZ RECORDS

I don’t know what else I can do since this problem is beyond my control.

would a long USB cable be a solution for the time being?

The MC would still be in "beer spillage" range

Quote from IZARITZ RECORDS

If anyone can help me solve these problems, I would appreciate it.

May we ask, why have you not connected your MC to your Kemper using a USB cable?

Have you tried using a cable set-up, bypassing the wireless/bluetooth arrangement to eliminate if that is the issue?

Quote from timo

First it displays the current progress like mounting the usb drive (2), mounting internal flash (3), opening backup (4), each represented by a orange flashing led, followed by the green bar showing progress of restoring from the backup.

Finally displaying „success“ by alternating green for 4 seconds, before it just reboots.

very informative, thanks, timo a golden nugget of information.

done it again today.
Guess i am looking for reassurance as to whether this is the normal behaviour. BTW not connected to rig manager during this operation

(probably the most boring video you will watch today)

perhaps a loose/dodgy cable or "dirty" pot might give false readings which are reference for the auto-calibrate

Done a player backup today- as i often and do using the usual method,ie, plug in usb stick, hold down bank-button and power up.

Normally, the lights chase from left to right as orange LEDs and takes roughly a minute before booting normally.

Today they chased green left to right then alternate LEDs flashed green, like some kind of update was happening, then it rebooted.

A back-up file was created on the USB stick during this process.

Is this a sign of some other kind of operation and, if so, what?

Quote from jub_100

I copied the whole "content" folder onto the MC rather than the contents of the folder.

Such is the english language, easy to take things quite literally.

have used similar before and its a god-send for sound engineers. (might have been sennhieser?)

Probably not suitable for the lead vocalist and aimed at mics on stands.

The only consideration as a user if you are using IEM is that you may find the on/off of the mic strange if you are used to having the ambient/bleed audio as part of your mix cutting in and out. It can give you a cleaner mix, obviously, as there is less "unwanted" audio going in to the various mixes.

you can usually set the distance/proximity at which these devices gate on/off. Likely to use phantom so consider that.

solved-

safari on mac didnt play nicely.

alternative browser solved the issue!

Anyone else finding it fails or slow to upload their video submissions to the "PROFILER Player video and win a Power Kabinet" ?

after 30mins my 70MB video just managed 5% upload. (my internet is good as can upload to youtube in seconds)

How many presets do you have in your Player?

is it rig manager syncing with the rig exchange?

how i understand it (and correct me if i am wrong) rig manager downloads all the presets found in the cloud (rig exchange) to your local device which may take some time so they are always available.

Whilst we're on the subject, i'd be interested to know how much space this consumes and whether it can be disabled.

Found this bit of kit the other day and it offers an alternative midi interface for your Kemper.
Very useful if you already have a midi controller with only the standard 5-pin MIDI connection on it.

A bit of a swiss-army-knife MIDI tool, can be used for many devices, situations and control interfaces.

PS, i'm not an endorsee, just sharing my experience with the community.

i understand it is designed to retain the last state it was in when the mains is disconnected, ie if you shut down then unplug from mains you will have to push the start button next time you apply the mains to start it up. but if you pull the mains power without shutting down first it will auto-start when mains is restored.

i seem to recall this didnt quite work properly in a recent firmware but the latest version fixed it.

what FW you on?

anyone reconfigured (and rewired the external hardware) to make one of the MC expression pedal inputs into a on/off switch?

Should be do-able by effectively switching from min to max and then assigning to a midi CC, kind of a cheeky way to gain an extra assignable on/off button.

be interested to know how, those who have done it, done it and what they done.